In the months before Aruká Juma died this year from COVID-19, the last remaining male of the elusive warrior people that lives in Brazil's Amazon was passing on the tribe's traditions to one of his daughters, who was anointed chief a few years ago. Juma was the only fluent speaker of his people's language and held the tribe's ancestral memory in his head. But the pandemic cut short Juma's .
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California s rural-urban COVID vaccine gap may be widening, CDC and state data show
Sacramento Bee 8 hrs ago Michael McGough and Hannah Wiley, The Sacramento Bee
May 19 COVID-19 vaccination rates in rural adults trailed urban rates by several percentage points nationwide and in California during the first four months of the rollout, according to a new report from the Centers for Disease Control.
The gap may be growing even wider in California in recent weeks as the shots become more widely available, state data show.
About 44% of California adults living in rural counties had received their first dose of a COVID-19 vaccine by April 10, compared to 50% of the state s adults in urban counties, according to a CDC report released Tuesday. The U.S. rates were 46% for urban adults and 39% for rural adults.